One of the ways that Hollywood is trying to fight piracy is to start making movies in 3D. These movies require specialized projection and of course those funny glasses. Thankfully the technology for the projection side of things and the glasses have both come a long way. Far enough that there is now a projector that is available for the classroom at education friendly prices. Texas Instruments has cooked a projector system that does 3D from a single source. I’ve seen a few uses for 3D in the classroom – usually in Science classes as students are given the opportunity to see molecules, organs or interactions in 3D. I’m sure there are other fields that might make use of it as well, but that will have to wait I guess.
Now all they have to do is make the assembly/production of 3D material easier (hopefully this does not require some manner of propriety encoding) and this could take off within a decade. In the mean time, it might be a way to bring 3D movies home, should 3D versions of movies… assuming that they are not blocked from projection and they can be decoded properly by the projector. Hmm… did I just point out the sticking point there?
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